Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting
Biography
Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.
As actor 168
My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Mayuko hitori
1971
おくさまは18歳
1970
The Burmese Harp
1956
Yomigaeri
2003
White Snake Enchantment
1983
Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte
1972
Proof of the Man
1977
Intentions of Murder
1964
Wrath of Daimajin
1966
Odd Obsession
1959
Station
1981
Rikyu
1989
The Incident
1978
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
The Insect Woman
1963
Amagi Pass
1983
Beauty and the Thief
1952
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
The Shadow of Fear
1956
Before Dawn
1953
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970
Outlaw
1953
Suspicion
1982
Scandal
1950
Summer Storm
1956
Rainbow Kids
1991
Blind Devotion
1961
Stakeout
1958
The Sun's Burial
1960
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Conflagration
1958
Darkness at Noon
1956
The Three Undelivered Letters
1979
Never Give Up
1978
Letter from the Mountain
2002
Dangerous Women
1985
Yakuza sensei
1960
The Scarlet Bat
1950
The Third Will
1963
Bad Girl
1963
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
The Maid's Kid
1955
My Second Brother
1959
Children of Hiroshima
1952
The Famous Wanderer
1961
Only on Mondays
1964
Thousand Cranes
1969
Koibito
1951
The Human Wall
1959
Foundry Town
1962
Buddha
1961
The Human Bullet
1968
A Japanese Tragedy
1953
Miniature
1953
Hana no unga
1956
A Hole of My Own Making
1955
The Burmese Harp
1985
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
Kobayashi Takiji
1974
All My Children
1963
Enraptured
1961
Kanebo Human Special: Pediatric Ward - Her devoted love saved Taro's soul
1980
Bonchi
1960
The Heart
1955
The Last Lady
1967
A Story from Echigo
1964
Dolls floating down the river
1962
Writhing Tongue
1980
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1952
A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
1953
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
Oh, My Comrade!
1970
White Beast
1950
Koga Manshion
1949
Ane to imôto
1965
Omoni to shounen
1958
Youth
1955
The Street Without Sun
1954
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
The Long Death
1964
Our Teacher
1983
Nomugi Pass
1979
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1952
Umarekawatta Tamegorō
1972
The Possessed
1976
Paper Pigeon
1959
A Good Man, A Good Day
1961
Hole in One
1957
Tomoshibi
1954
The Wild Daisy
1977
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
The Wolves
1955
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1966
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971
Welcome, My Baby
1964
But the Flesh is Weak
1957
Heat Wave Island
1969
A Chain of Islands
1965
Call from Darkness
1981
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965
The Legend of Sayo
1982
Nippon no obaachan
1962
Actress
1956
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
Marriageable Age
1961
Asu no hanayome
1962
Chance Meeting
1958
The Greatest Challenge of All
1967
Slave Factory
1968
Haze of Love
1985
Victory or Defeat
1954
A Billionaire
1954
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
1953
Daybreak Chorus
1963
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
小父さんありがとう
1961
The Motherless
1955
Journey to the North
1967
The Young and Bad
1962
Become a Mother, Become a Woman
1952
Apart from Life
1970
A Woman Called En
1971
Song of Love
1967
Patience Has An End
1971
Price of Life
1971
My Voiceless Friends
1972
The Grave Tells All
1960
Ashita au hito
1962
Ningen Gari
1962
Sisters
1955
The Sea of Eden
1976
Terror in the Streets
1970
River Without a Bridge
1969
Blood and Sea
1965
Saigo no sentō-ki
1956
The Bitch
1951
Farewell to Spring
1952
The Final Winner?
1968
How Sorrowful
1956
Children of Izu
1962
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
男の哀愁
1951
A Windmill, Tulips and Love
1966
Yamada Village Waltz
1988
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
The Start of Life
1965
Desire
1953
Gassan
1979
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
1952
Kamishibai Showa History: The Golden Bat is Here
1972
Our Town
1956
The Little Hero
1970
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
Shiawase wa doko ni
1956
Jigoku no hatoba
1956
Love is Lost
1956
限りなき情熱
1951
Musume no boken
1958
Shokei zen'ya
1961
The Dawn of Judo
1955
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
1970
Dawn Chorus
1955
Inhibited Love
1955